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The Marvel Cinematic Universe has given us stories about space gods, political thrillers, and street level superheroes--but we still haven't gotten a classic villain team! But we think that's about to change, and that the MCU is secretly setting up its greatest team of super-villains: The Masters of Evil.
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This franchise keeps offering us so many cool things, pretty much on a monthly basis at this point, so it’s hard to miss anything at this point. Well other than the X-Men, but that’s not what I’m missing… at least not in this video.
No, I’m missing something special that has been absence for way too long in the MCU.
I keep waiting for that special something, but it never comes.
[Doug]: so what are you missing? Tell us already!
What I’m missing is a team of supervillains.
I’m talking the Masters of Evil. The Dark Avengers. Thunderbolts. The Cable.
A team of bad guys, each with their own distinct personalities, motivations, powers, weapons, skills.
This is something we have been missing in the MCU. It’s so strange that a villains team never happened within this shared universe. I mean seriously, even DC did it already… for like a minute.
To make things worse, there don’t seem to be any plans for it in the future.
So Kevin, since you are so busy with the multiverse stuff, let me pitch you why we need a supervillain team in this universe, how this team can happen, and who should be part of it. I’m going to even figure out how you can do a heroes vs villains crossover before Secret Wars.
Alright, let’s start with what we mean by a supervillain team.
The Masters of Evil is one of the first groups of villains that assembled in the comics. They are sort of like DC’s the Legion of Doom.
It’s a team of established villains who have all faced the Avengers individually in the past. They are all the arch-nemesis of the heroes.
So you could sort of see them as the dark mirror image of the Avengers.
The original team was assembled by Baron Zemo, something I have no doubt could happen in the MCU.
Over the years there have been many iterations of the Masters of Evil.
At some point, Zemo assembled a new team of villains, this time as the Thunderbolts. A team of baddies who pretended to be superheroes.
Years later, a new version of the Thunderbolts was assembled by Norman Osborn, and they eventually became the Dark Avengers. Yet another team I wish we would see in the MCU already.
Finally, there’s the Cabal, who are a dark version of the Illuminati.
These aren’t the only ones, but I’m bringing up these 3 groups because I want to see a mixture of these teams in the MCU.
So you can see that Marvel had a lot of inspiration in the comics for a great villains team.
I was really hoping that the Thunderbolts will be that type of team. But once Marvel announcenced the Thunderbolts’ roster, that excitement was just smashed. And not in the way She-Hulk likes to smash Daredevil.
To clarify, I have no issues with This team, it looks like this movie will be lots of fun.
Still I can’t help but be disappointed by the Thunderbolts not being a group of villains. Be it Thunderbolts, the dark Avengers or the Masters of Evil, we need at least one supervillains team.
That being said, She-Hulk gave us a hint to a possible supervillain to Intelligencia. In the comics it’s a team of super-smart villains.
But considering that the team was assembled by this guy….[clip], I doubt that it’s the supervillains team we are looking for.
Truth be told the MCU’s villain statuesque is becoming a little stagnant and repetitive at this point.
Almost every movie or show follows a similar formula with the villains.
There’s one main villain, who either works alone or they have a bunch of useless goons. Usually it’s an army of look-alike CGI goons.
These types of villains are the most common in the MCU.
Don’t get me wrong, this method works for the most part, but isn’t it time to shake things up with something new?
That’s why a supervillains team is such a cool concept, because each villain is different, they are not just copy and paste goons, they are actual characters with individual personalities and traits.